How you can become an important economist of education: speed past the disruption metaphor
I’ve read the new Rick Hess-Michael Horn edited volume, Private Enterprise and Public Education, and most of the chapters in earlier versions for the Andrew Kelly-Kevin Carey anthology, Stretching the Higher Education Dollar. Given my disappointment over the more general “here’s where the market drives things so don’t harsh or hate so much” chapters, I’ve been trying […]
How to fix some of public higher education in the real world, NOW.
On Sunday, I described six realities of public higher education spending, and I promised some ideas to address those realities. That sounds like a tall order, given the political and institution ambitions that drive a solid chunk of funding decisions, especially for public research universities. But let a cynical historian try his hand at a […]
Six realities of public higher education spending
With President Obama’s speech last month in Buffalo, and Dylan Matthews’ Tuition Is Too Damn High’ series in the Washington Post‘s Wonkblog, institutional and student costs have been at the focus of higher-ed policy debate at the start of this academic year. Late last week, Matthews concluded his series with a list of ideas to reduce […]
Increased tuition at research universities: Bowen, relative priorities, and net assets
Over at the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, Dylan Matthews has been tearing it up with a series of posts on increasing tuition he titled The Tuition Is Too Damn High. Thus far, the three must-reads are the following entries: Part 3: The three segments of public/non-profit higher ed, and why the tuition increased for different reasons […]